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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "DS" == Dave Storrs <dstorrs@dstorrs.com> writes: > > DS> There have been multiple mentions of the fact that we intend to have safe > DS> signals in Perl 6. I was wondering if it will also be possible to have > DS> more than one alarm() set at a time, or some other mechanism for having > DS> multiple pending signals. > > if we have a proper core event loop as dan and i want, multiple timers > will be part of that. and that will mean we can have timed out > operations without the mess of eval/die (or whatever 6 will have for > that). Cool. > > similarly, proper safe signals will store all pending signals and > deliver each one. Cooler. > a core event loop will support all of those features. delivery methods > can be chosen by the coder, either polling in the op code loop or > running a proper event loop with no polling (which will be faster). Completely frozen. (That's a compliment, in this context. :>) Dave